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Duke3D & SW - Early/Alpha/Beta/Gold Material

If I may ask, is this zip file going to be made publicly available ala Lameduke once it's sufficiently pruned for any material that might have copyright issues? Having a hands-on look at this stuff would be an experience to die for.

I certainly get that impression from the thread, but I find it always pays to clarify.

Yes, Mike

The majority of the "Gold" though is not in that Zip file.
That's in the (literally) hundreds of Backup CD's and Hard-drives from the past 25 years.

Fantastic! The zip might pale in comparison to what's stored on those assloads of hard-drives and backups, but it's still a pretty awesome pile of stuff!
As for the hard-drives and backup CDs, I can't even begin to imagine the kind of adventures you guys are gonna have tinkering through those.

We've spend the weekends, the last 1.5 months digging through it, organising, and backing up A lot of interesting history.
It's great to uncover everything 3D Realms/Apogee has been working on - and the different states of these games - from the past 2 decades.

We can't wait to share more with you guys.
These things belong with the fans

This post has been edited by Frederik Schreiber: 17 April 2014 - 11:21 AM

Awesome
Are we finally going to be able to play the levels featured in screenshots on the back of the game box that were not in the final game ?

I love the feel of the city map we get to see at first. It feels a lot more post apocalyptic, feels like, Terminator, or actually, more like Duke Nukem 1 and 2. and are those sharks chasing Duke? I always thought the sharks were useless in the final game, that's kinda cool.

The flamethrower, that I remember french magazine reviewers said sucked, is probably in it, too.

When I think before, we searched everywhere in magazines/videos, to get pictures of these betas, and now, we discover that they're still existing and are at hand...
Seriously, what can happen better this year?

When I think before, we searched everywhere in magazines/videos, to get pictures of these betas, and now, we discover that they're still existing and are at hand...
Seriously, what can happen better this year?

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The flamethrower in 0.99 is nothing like what is in these versions, actually. I think what is in 0.99 is already being transitioned into a different weapon... (there are a few weapons so far nobody has seen before). The working flamethrower is kinda neat and reminds me a bit of the firebomb from ROTT.

The flamethrower in 0.99 is nothing like what is in these versions, actually. I think what is in 0.99 is already being transitioned into a different weapon... (there are a few weapons so far nobody has seen before). The working flamethrower is kinda neat and reminds me a bit of the firebomb from ROTT.

If you cant release the Prey build publicly.Can you at least post some screenshots of it running please?

There are around 9 Prey builds, from the early Tom Hall days, to the late Paul Schuytema days.
Unfortunately in order to show screenshots of these builds, we would have to get Bethesda's approval first.

They own Prey, and are ultimately in control of what happens with it. We don't want to step on anyones toes.
I'll try and reach out to Bethesda about it.